Do you sometimes long for the taste of roast beef in a sandwich? There's no need to run out to a restaurant or deli to get a great roast beef sandwich. Use these recipes to make the beefy sandwich of your dreams.

I had some roast beef scraps left over from slicing the beef. I added a bit of onion soup powder, a can of smooshed up stewed tomatoes, celery, carrots, a teensy potato, peppers, and the end of a zucchini. I cooked all of that together with a hand full of edamame beans, some green beans, and bay leaf. YUUUMMMMM! Homemade vegetable beef soup is amazing with a cheese quesadilla!

I love homemade vegetable beef soup from the leftover roast beef. It's quick, it's easy, and if you kept some of that lovely au jus, it can be quite rich even though it didn't start with roasted beef bones.

How do you do it? The kids, the cooking, the cleaning, the writing *and* the full-time teaching? Ack, just typing all that out makes me tired.

The teaching is hard, even though I love it; the writing is a delight!

Seriously, I don't do a lot of the things that other people enjoy spending time on. We see 3 or 4 movies a year. We are just old homebodies, so it is not hard to write. This is especially true since I moved my computer out of my office and into the living room with the birds.